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New comment by the_sleaze_ in "How to earn a billion dollars"

the_sleaze_ — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:43:08 +0000

1. End step-up cost basis at death 2. Tax or end lending against portfolios

Seems like a solved problem to me.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

the_sleaze_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:49:19 +0000

I stand corrected, S&P did not shorten its rules to allow SpaceX after all. I was under the impression the Google compute deal made it so it could.

Nice!

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

the_sleaze_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:18:07 +0000

They relaxed the rules for SpaceX already, it's in almost immediately the IPO

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

the_sleaze_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:17:31 +0000

They'll both be in the S&P, and combined would represent roughly 5%

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

the_sleaze_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:35:17 +0000

Please remember to thank Chef Mike

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Waymo Premier"

the_sleaze_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:32:55 +0000

The dream of course is to replace singleton personal vehicle ownership, and to just rent a car as you need it.

If it slick enough (not too much friction) I'd be willing to sign up

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

the_sleaze_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:04:33 +0000

No they don't.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:38:00 +0000

How successful did he turn out to be? As a CEO your days should be jam packed with brutal "chewing glass and gazing into the abyss". Is he running a lifestyle type company?

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

the_sleaze_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:16:50 +0000

Messi was in a full time Futbol Academy playing futbol 6 hours every single day when his physical attributes diverged away from his peers.

He also runs a 4.6-second 40 meter dash, well fast enough for the NFL combine.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Am I Unc?"

the_sleaze_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:46:35 +0000

Fo shizzle

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:28:47 +0000

First I'm hearing that is a lot worse - do you have sources? Genuinely curious

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:23:00 +0000

Yes and. The new FSD is $100 /month and actually works

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine"

the_sleaze_ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:31:08 +0000

Would like to see investment into removing dissolved co2, bicarbonate ion from the ocean as well.

What ever happened to that company that was going to extract materials for concrete from seawater?

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

the_sleaze_ — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:33:59 +0000

A good question, but we don't know what anti-depressants do or how they do it, same with anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers, psychedelics, etc. I think we can say we have good theories for creatine.

We do know that it does do something at certain doses.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Is this sustainable?"

the_sleaze_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:15:44 +0000

Murmurations is a beautiful way of describing these

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

the_sleaze_ — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:57 +0000

Another thing which I've seen personally is that in general getting from 0 to 1 required HEROIC effort to the point that it requires a personality type.

How many veterinarians got into the game to become relentless, driven, scrappy and indomitable business owners vs because they love furry things and helping?

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

the_sleaze_ — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:37:17 +0000

As long as customers choose services based on quality.

The HVAC for example - the large firms around you do not run HVAC/plumbing/electrical, they run marketing companies that happen to schedule and bill H+P+E service appointments.

That being said I've never heard or encountered a single services company in the US that can't find business, in fact it's the opposite. They're trying not to drown themselves in front of a fire hose.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "The real cost of owning a home"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:24:44 +0000

Something I've been eyeing is the All In One Loan or FirstPosition HELOC where you take a HELOC on the entirety of the homes value, then use that credit account as your daily spending account.

It's a higher interest rate, but then you only get charged on the amount you have actually borrowed which ideally would be get lower and lower.

If anyone has any feedback on it I'd love to hear it

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "The real cost of owning a home"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:20:46 +0000

He's saying - and rightly so - that outflow towards rent can be significantly less than outflow towards real property equity given the structure of a traditional mortgage + maintenance burden. And with (a large amount of) financial discipline that delta can result in substantial increase in wealth at the end of the day.

New comment by the_sleaze_ in "The user is visibly frustrated"

the_sleaze_ — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:51 +0000

Skill Issue.

AIs are juniors, and as much as we love the trope that "humans eventually learn" in my experience most do not. The thing about an LLM is that I haven't had to contend with an LLM's ego, which was fairly often dealing with juniors.

You gotta set the juniors up for success in the same way I have to set my toddlers up for a successful breakfast. If I leave the syrup on the table and walk away they're going to manage to get it on the ceiling.